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Woman at the Crossing

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Woman at the Crossing

By Susan OkieNarrated by Susan Okie

Woman at the Crossing

Length59m

About this audiobook

In the poem that opens her debut collection, Susan Okie recounts an evening in the anatomy lab. Here we witness the depths of her curiosity toward her subject's inner workings. When I tugged on the flexor digitorum tendons, / her fingers partly closed and her thumb /crooked in. I seemed to see the two of us / as if from outside, and could no longer / name the tendons. I felt my fingers / from inside her hand." What to some might feel like harrowing proximity, Okie delivers, in astonishing verse, with wonder and even intimacy. To be sure, Woman at the Crossing is the work of a seasoned practitioner.

Audiobook details

GenrePoetry

Length59 mins

Narrated bySusan Okie

FormatAudiobook

Publish dateJan 7, 2025

LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Intro

28Onlakevictoria 1992

2Section 1

29Thenewwidow

3Intheanatomylab

30Herface

4Theblackdogwakesuswithfishbreath

31Selfportrait 730am 01

5Learningtodrink

32Formyfather

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6Adeadloon

33Ivisitmyfatherinthehospitalmidwaythroughpregnancy

7Therainsbegininwesternkenya

34Twomothers

8Womanatthecrossing

35Womensworkkisumukenya

9Willyofkisumukenya

36Judith

10Adoctorseyeignaciosfoot

37Totsvetayeva

11Ingreatvillage

38Adoctorseyeafterthemammogram

12Slippery

39Adoctorseyethenewpatient

13Section 2

40Insideout

14Thelifeofsecrets

41Metamorphosis

15Thedictionary

42Section 4

16Myparentspicniconcorregidor

43Prayerinthewinterdesert

17Myfatherinmexicocity 1921

44Trackingthemother

18Undertaking

45Tothespiritsofchacocanyon

19Withinbounds

46Elizabethbishopinjectsherselfwithadrenalineforasthma

20Myfavoriteyear

47Lovesaustereandlonelyoffices

21Theendofpacificoceanpark

48Standoffonthemarshtrail

22Thefilly

49Cucumber

23Interiorwithyoungwoman

50Onthedockinthedark

24Inhades

51Solitude

25Adoctorseyetheybedofcrimsonjoy

52Disappearancesmountrainier

26Towardoffices

53Perseid

27Section 3

54Outro

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